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Author Archive: Chad Reynolds

Best of BangShift 2010: Two Cars Smashing the Guardrail at the 2010 March Meet

In our photos of the 2010 March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway, we happened to catch two photo sequences of cars hanging a hard right into the pit side guardrail. We don’t have details on the...

Big Willie Robinson is coming to the Big Screen

We’d love to give you more details, but the truth is we don’t have many. What we do know is that Big Willie Robinson has been signed for a movie, to be shot here in Southern California,...

Video: Bitchin ’57 Chevy Burnout and Powershifting Action

When we were told about this video by BangShifter RevRods, we couldn’t wait to hit the play button. We’re confident you’ll feel the same way. After all, who can argue with the...

Vote Now!: Ridetech’s T-Shirt Design contest voting is on!

A few weeks ago the boys and girls at Ridetech announced they were doing a T-Shirt design contest. With fame and fortune on the line, the competition was fierce, but Ridetech has narrowed it down to...

Video: Ridetech’s Bret Voelkel says “We Drive Our Junk!”

  We love the guys over at Ridetech, and the fact that everything they own gets beat on. We’ve always said that their products are Bret Tested which means you can’t possibly be...

Video: Mooneyes Christmas Party Drags and Cacklefest 2010

We already showed you the 400 plus photos that we took at the Mooneyes Christmas Party and Drags, but now we are bringing you the video. We’ve got Factory Experimentals, Gassers, and Top Fuel...

Show Coverage: We’ve got 250 photos from the 2010 John Force Racing Holiday Car Show

December means more than car parts under the tree for Southern California residents, it also means it’s time for the John Force Racing Holiday Car Show and Toy Drive 2010. Yorba Linda, home to...

Video: The 2011 Camaro Convertible. We’ll take two.

We’ve got a 1969 Camaro Convertible in the BangShift.com project car fleet, so it only makes sense that we’d be excited about the new 2011 Camaro Convertible. We got to see one in person...

Video: Wheelstanding Stock Eliminator 1969 Camaro

Let’s face it, we like a lot of racing. But since we grew up around NHRA Stock Eliminator drag racing, and one of the family racers was a 1969 Camaro, we have a certain soft spot for first-gen...

Craigslist Truck Pick of the Week: 1969 GMC Long Horn C60

As an homage to our fearless truck and tractor aficionado, Brian Lohnes, we came up with this cool Craigslist Truck Pick which came to us via the BangShift bat phone. “Brn Agn” on the...

Video: Drag Car hits wall, comes apart, and almost takes out the camera man.

Sean Melton, one of our loyal BangShift Forum members, sent us a link to video that he shot at Immokalee Dragstrip in January of 2010. The video is pretty crazy to watch as Sean found himself...

Video: Chad Introduces Ridetech’s New Triple Adjustable Coil-Over Shocks

While at the 2010 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, we showed you several new products on video, but we still had one in the bag. After making it’s debut at the SEMA Show, we are introducing...

Video: More Aussie fun at the 2010 Spring Nationals in Victoria

While most of us are bundling up for a cold Fall season, our friends down under are enjoying Spring which means the 18th Annual Spring Nationals in Melbourne Victoria. And when we think Spring...

Bill Simpson’s Impact Racing sold! Now MasterCraft Safety.

MasterCraft Safety, builders of some of the finest off-road safety equipment, announced today that they have purchased Bill Simpson’s Impact Racing. Impact Racing by MasterCraft Safety gear...